Data and the City
Civic Tech, Participation and Society
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McMillan, Donald
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Engström, Arvid
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Lampinen, Airi
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Brown, Barry
Proceedings of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems
2016-05-07
v.1
p.2933-2944
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: We consider how data is produced and used in cities. We draw on our
experiences working with city authorities, along with twenty interviews across
four cities to understand the role that data plays in city government.
Following the development and deployment of innovative data-driven technology
projects in the cities, we look in particular at collaborations around open and
crowdsourced data, issues with the politicisation of data, and problems in
innovating within the highly regulated public sphere. We discuss what this
means for cities, citizens, innovators, and for visions of big data in the
smart city as a whole.